Somehow, the magic server widget that the salesman said would solve all their problems turns out to be a bug ridden piece of crap that doesn't work. Buggy, crash happy, doesn't function as advertized, unstable, etc. And the powers that be that bought it scream, "but you HAVE to make it work."

Somehow, the magic server widget that the salesman said would solve all their problems turns out to be a bug ridden piece of crap that doesn't work. Buggy, crash happy, doesn't function as advertized, unstable, etc. And the powers that be that bought it scream, "but you HAVE to make it work."

Managers that buy server widgets without IT input should be shot.

I will pour a beer on the floor and weep in your honor. Jesus, I hate that. "They said it would solve all our problems. They said, they said, THEY SAID and if you can't get it to work like the fine people at Herpetology Lubricants Inc. did in their demo, the fault must lie with YOU, good sir! Those people paid for a FINE STEAK DINNER at a Vegas hotel, and I will not have you sullying their good name!"

Fuck 2012. Fuck the fuckers that make hardware with their fucking dick-shaped heads stuck up their incredibly tight asses because "oh $$$$ makes me jump like a fistule-bedeviled monkey at a hootenanny!"

Hooking up my 2009 Mac Mini to a new monitor should be easy-fuckyourmomsidewaysyousnotsuckingsonofawhore-peasy. Shouldn't it? Right? Because it's fucking 2012 and we're not knuckle-dragging apes and for Christ's sake the GODDAMNED IGNORANT KARDASHIANS HAVE LIKE 25 TV SHOWS ALL TO THEMSELVES AND WE CAN PUT A MAN ON YOUR MOM! Except for moob-enhanced hardware manufacturers because "HAVING FUCKING STANDARDS IS TOO FUCKING HARD BOOHOO WE CAN'T DO IT BOOHOO ON US".

One might think, probably incorrectly, that with the gazillion miles of different cables and multi-fucking-tude of adapters in my possession that I'd have something that would let me connect a d-sub port to a mini-DVI port. BUT OH FUCKING NO BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TOO FUCKING EASY AND WE'RE HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS AND, WHEN WE'RE NOT RAPING YOU FOR MOAR MONEY, WE'RE SUCKING EACH OTHER'S DICKS AND LAUGHING SO GIVE US OUR $20 AND DANCE MONKEYBOY, DANCE!

Christ. We can get the electrical socket thing down. We can, somehow, agree on some stupidly arcane thing like the volume button on remotes will always be on the left. But we just can't get Jesus down off his fucking cross long enough to actually come up with connection standards because NO ONE BUYS PRINTER CABLES ANY MORE BECAUSE WIRELESS IS MAKING US TOO POOR TO GO TO GREECE MORE THAN TWICE A YEAR ON OUR YACHTS AND MY NEWER TROPHY WIFE JUST REDECORATED THE PRIVATE JET AND POOLBOYS COST MORE THESE DAYS.

Or something.

I don't know. First world problems and all that shit. Frustrating none the less.

I just found out that a recent change to the Facebook feed means that my comments (and to a smaller extent Likes) now appear in my friends feeds. I get none of this, and so I had no idea it was happening. Oh well, I guess no more inappropriate dry jokes in comments.

Fuck 2012. Fuck the fuckers that make hardware with their fucking dick-shaped heads stuck up their incredibly tight asses because "oh $$$$ makes me jump like a fistule-bedeviled monkey at a hootenanny!"

Hooking up my 2009 Mac Mini to a new monitor should be easy-fuckyourmomsidewaysyousnotsuckingsonofawhore-peasy. Shouldn't it? Right? Because it's fucking 2012 and we're not knuckle-dragging apes and for Christ's sake the GODDAMNED IGNORANT KARDASHIANS HAVE LIKE 25 TV SHOWS ALL TO THEMSELVES AND WE CAN PUT A MAN ON YOUR MOM! Except for moob-enhanced hardware manufacturers because "HAVING FUCKING STANDARDS IS TOO FUCKING HARD BOOHOO WE CAN'T DO IT BOOHOO ON US".

One might think, probably incorrectly, that with the gazillion miles of different cables and multi-fucking-tude of adapters in my possession that I'd have something that would let me connect a d-sub port to a mini-DVI port. BUT OH FUCKING NO BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TOO FUCKING EASY AND WE'RE HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS AND, WHEN WE'RE NOT RAPING YOU FOR MOAR MONEY, WE'RE SUCKING EACH OTHER'S DICKS AND LAUGHING SO GIVE US OUR $20 AND DANCE MONKEYBOY, DANCE!

Christ. We can get the electrical socket thing down. We can, somehow, agree on some stupidly arcane thing like the volume button on remotes will always be on the left. But we just can't get Jesus down off his fucking cross long enough to actually come up with connection standards because NO ONE BUYS PRINTER CABLES ANY MORE BECAUSE WIRELESS IS MAKING US TOO POOR TO GO TO GREECE MORE THAN TWICE A YEAR ON OUR YACHTS AND MY NEWER TROPHY WIFE JUST REDECORATED THE PRIVATE JET AND POOLBOYS COST MORE THESE DAYS.

Or something.

I don't know. First world problems and all that shit. Frustrating none the less.

(Going to be in DC for business next week and I want to pop into the Air and Space Museum's gift shop for some things, but they close at 5:30... that's probably way earlier than I have any chance of getting some downtime and making my way to the Mall)

Kinda the wrong place but the right forum doesn't have random thoughts/stories.

Beware the Windows patches we just got today. It took almost an hour for stage 3 of 3 to finish. And after the first reboot it came up in some kind of zombie state where a good number of services didn't start. Subsequent reboots didn't always finish. I spent two hours just to get to the state where I can post this.

Kinda the wrong place but the right forum doesn't have random thoughts/stories.

Beware the Windows patches we just got today. It took almost an hour for stage 3 of 3 to finish. And after the first reboot it came up in some kind of zombie state where a good number of services didn't start. Subsequent reboots didn't always finish. I spent two hours just to get to the state where I can post this.

(Going to be in DC for business next week and I want to pop into the Air and Space Museum's gift shop for some things, but they close at 5:30... that's probably way earlier than I have any chance of getting some downtime and making my way to the Mall)

Years ago I was sent to DC on business. Most airlines will (did?) offer discounts if you stay at the destination over the weekend; I figured out that the company would save more money by letting me stay over the weekend, even with the extra hotel costs, than flying me back Friday evening -- so they let me stay all weekend. Had plenty of time to see most of the tourist sites.

Fuck 2012. Fuck the fuckers that make hardware with their fucking dick-shaped heads stuck up their incredibly tight asses because "oh $$$$ makes me jump like a fistule-bedeviled monkey at a hootenanny!"

Hooking up my 2009 Mac Mini to a new monitor should be easy-fuckyourmomsidewaysyousnotsuckingsonofawhore-peasy. Shouldn't it? Right? Because it's fucking 2012 and we're not knuckle-dragging apes and for Christ's sake the GODDAMNED IGNORANT KARDASHIANS HAVE LIKE 25 TV SHOWS ALL TO THEMSELVES AND WE CAN PUT A MAN ON YOUR MOM! Except for moob-enhanced hardware manufacturers because "HAVING FUCKING STANDARDS IS TOO FUCKING HARD BOOHOO WE CAN'T DO IT BOOHOO ON US".

One might think, probably incorrectly, that with the gazillion miles of different cables and multi-fucking-tude of adapters in my possession that I'd have something that would let me connect a d-sub port to a mini-DVI port. BUT OH FUCKING NO BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TOO FUCKING EASY AND WE'RE HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS AND, WHEN WE'RE NOT RAPING YOU FOR MOAR MONEY, WE'RE SUCKING EACH OTHER'S DICKS AND LAUGHING SO GIVE US OUR $20 AND DANCE MONKEYBOY, DANCE!

Christ. We can get the electrical socket thing down. We can, somehow, agree on some stupidly arcane thing like the volume button on remotes will always be on the left. But we just can't get Jesus down off his fucking cross long enough to actually come up with connection standards because NO ONE BUYS PRINTER CABLES ANY MORE BECAUSE WIRELESS IS MAKING US TOO POOR TO GO TO GREECE MORE THAN TWICE A YEAR ON OUR YACHTS AND MY NEWER TROPHY WIFE JUST REDECORATED THE PRIVATE JET AND POOLBOYS COST MORE THESE DAYS.

Or something.

I don't know. First world problems and all that shit. Frustrating none the less.

I might be mistaken, but IIRC, d-sub is analog, while dvi is digital, so there isn't going to be a simple cable to convert one to the other.

So, a musical featuring the 'songs' of the Spice girls has opened in the west end of london, so a rush of critics spewing vitriol. Heres the thing, its doing stupid business, because all of the 30 something women identify with the music, it being a ` girl power` nay even feminist thing.

It struck me, why do we have to couch things as feminist or woman empowering ?

If its because men are in control of everything, Id like to ask women what exactly they think masculinity is, and why they need empowered against/because of it. How many times have you heard `man up` or 'take it like a man', how many bullshit standards about `real men` are going to be thrown around? Society has this concept of a man, you know the one, strong, takes everything in his stride, never asks for directions, never needs help, but is utterly incompetent in bedroom/kitchen/social situations without the help of Wifey/Mom. An incredible pressure to jam ourselves into this mould, to be head of the household, to provide, to defend, to take out spiders, you know that tired trite bullshit.

Heres the thing, in the instances that we empower women, we ignore men.

Where are our male role models? Holywood, the old guard is dead and gone, there are no more Lee Marvins or John Waynes, the action heros are worn out and washed up and living on nostalgia (schwarzennaeger, stallone), and the up and coming generation we have ... chris brown? Boys are loud and obnoxious and told to shut up, sit down, behave, all the things you cannot do and must not do, control yourself or we control you, or call your parent(s). We have to increase the number of women in X role, and ensure that women are fairly treated in Y, but the boys are alright, theyre just going to grow up fed bullshit, misdirection and inferiority because theyre doing just fine, right? The media is feeding them hackneyed examples, reinforcing negative traits, they see thug behaviour as something to emulate, Chris Brown is someone to be admired (seriously, what the fuck is going on here), he put a woman in the hospital in a fit of bad temper, but is still selling millions because he's sexy and can sing, AND shes forgiven him and gone back to him, despite it not being a solitary event.

For many men, `nutting up` becomes synononymous with repression, we're expected to just take it. How many times have you been smacked by a woman, anything from punches to the shoulder to full hand face slaps to worse - how many times would you have been in handcuffs had you done something similar to a friend, let alone to a woman? Various crisis services are, shall we say, openly scornful of men, its a battered womans shelter or its a 'rape' survival clinic, or being grilled by police officers because youre a 6'5 man and shes a 5'2 woman and clearly YOU must have been violent toward her. So we take it, and take it and take it and take it, and we bottle it up, repress ourselves further, all in the name of 'being a man', we numb our emotions and frequently try to replace the empty hole left behind with other things, drink, drugs, depression, self-destructive behaviour patterns. The news is full of child abusers and pedos, for which men are excoriated, heaven forbid you be male and around children, how many women do you know ensure there are always 2 of them around children at all times? Stay home fathers are mocked and looked down upon, good luck in the court of law with Mothers being favoured overwhelmingly with custody. The (uk) law is also supposed to require both parents consent for a child to be removed from the country, the numbers of women abducting their children is something like 8-1 compared to fathers doing it.

Female sexuality is waved around something like a baseball bat, something to celebrate, ironically our biology works against us, whilst men are `studly` and women can end up `slutty` you`ll find that the predators/creeps are all men (we all know women cant be chauvinist pigs, right?) Sexuality is fine within narrow confines, basically `mainstream porn`, if its outside that they risk immasculation via peer pressure/mockery - heaven forbid they like restraints, or pegging, or curvier women - that`ll get things like 'oh you like in the ass, youre a fag` or 'fat girls are like mopeds, fun to ride but you dont want to admit to it`

The male identity these days is adrift, we see examples of Feminism and empowered women day in, day out, the male identity is ignored, mocked or marginalized at the same damn time. No one speaks of the hidden potential of young men, the unlocking of their abilities or finding their hidden talent. Would Malala Yousufzai be being put forwa d for a Nobel Peace price, or flown to the UK for emergency surgery if instead she was little Muhammend Yousufzai? Exceptionalism should be celebrated, no matter the gender

I have a stinking head cold and am a little hopped up on decongestants & espresso, so if this is incoherent... work with me

So, a musical featuring the 'songs' of the Spice girls has opened in the west end of london, so a rush of critics spewing vitriol. Heres the thing, its doing stupid business, because all of the 30 something women identify with the music, it being a ` girl power` nay even feminist thing.

It struck me, why do we have to couch things as feminist or woman empowering ?

If its because men are in control of everything, Id like to ask women what exactly they think masculinity is, and why they need empowered against/because of it. How many times have you heard `man up` or 'take it like a man', how many bullshit standards about `real men` are going to be thrown around? Society has this concept of a man, you know the one, strong, takes everything in his stride, never asks for directions, never needs help, but is utterly incompetent in bedroom/kitchen/social situations without the help of Wifey/Mom. An incredible pressure to jam ourselves into this mould, to be head of the household, to provide, to defend, to take out spiders, you know that tired trite bullshit.

Heres the thing, in the instances that we empower women, we ignore men.

Where are our male role models? Holywood, the old guard is dead and gone, there are no more Lee Marvins or John Waynes, the action heros are worn out and washed up and living on nostalgia (schwarzennaeger, stallone), and the up and coming generation we have ... chris brown? Boys are loud and obnoxious and told to shut up, sit down, behave, all the things you cannot do and must not do, control yourself or we control you, or call your parent(s). We have to increase the number of women in X role, and ensure that women are fairly treated in Y, but the boys are alright, theyre just going to grow up fed bullshit, misdirection and inferiority because theyre doing just fine, right? The media is feeding them hackneyed examples, reinforcing negative traits, they see thug behaviour as something to emulate, Chris Brown is someone to be admired (seriously, what the fuck is going on here), he put a woman in the hospital in a fit of bad temper, but is still selling millions because he's sexy and can sing, AND shes forgiven him and gone back to him, despite it not being a solitary event.

For many men, `nutting up` becomes synononymous with repression, we're expected to just take it. How many times have you been smacked by a woman, anything from punches to the shoulder to full hand face slaps to worse - how many times would you have been in handcuffs had you done something similar to a friend, let alone to a woman? Various crisis services are, shall we say, openly scornful of men, its a battered womans shelter or its a 'rape' survival clinic, or being grilled by police officers because youre a 6'5 man and shes a 5'2 woman and clearly YOU must have been violent toward her. So we take it, and take it and take it and take it, and we bottle it up, repress ourselves further, all in the name of 'being a man', we numb our emotions and frequently try to replace the empty hole left behind with other things, drink, drugs, depression, self-destructive behaviour patterns. The news is full of child abusers and pedos, for which men are excoriated, heaven forbid you be male and around children, how many women do you know ensure there are always 2 of them around children at all times? Stay home fathers are mocked and looked down upon, good luck in the court of law with Mothers being favoured overwhelmingly with custody. The (uk) law is also supposed to require both parents consent for a child to be removed from the country, the numbers of women abducting their children is something like 8-1 compared to fathers doing it.

Female sexuality is waved around something like a baseball bat, something to celebrate, ironically our biology works against us, whilst men are `studly` and women can end up `slutty` you`ll find that the predators/creeps are all men (we all know women cant be chauvinist pigs, right?) Sexuality is fine within narrow confines, basically `mainstream porn`, if its outside that they risk immasculation via peer pressure/mockery - heaven forbid they like restraints, or pegging, or curvier women - that`ll get things like 'oh you like in the ass, youre a fag` or 'fat girls are like mopeds, fun to ride but you dont want to admit to it`

The male identity these days is adrift, we see examples of Feminism and empowered women day in, day out, the male identity is ignored, mocked or marginalized at the same damn time. No one speaks of the hidden potential of young men, the unlocking of their abilities or finding their hidden talent. Would Malala Yousufzai be being put forwa d for a Nobel Peace price, or flown to the UK for emergency surgery if instead she was little Muhammend Yousufzai? Exceptionalism should be celebrated, no matter the gender

I have a stinking head cold and am a little hopped up on decongestants & espresso, so if this is incoherent... work with me

You are a sad, sad creature, male or female, if you get your identity from the media.

DVI includes connectors for both digital and analog. Is nini-dvi digital only?

It's digital, RGB analog, or composite analog depending on which adapter you plug in, but only one of those at a time.

The Apple store page for the mini-DVI-to-DVI-D adapter was a river of flames and shrieking lost souls because nobody read the fine print that says you can't buy the Apple DVI-D adapter and then plug the cheapass DVI-I-to-VGA adapter that came with your last video card into it, and drive a VGA monitor that way. "DOESN'T DO WHAT THE BOX DOESN'T SAY IT WILL DO. NO STARS! I WANNA REFUND!!!"

Im not about to argue that Tom, my point was more that society is being warped in potentially harmful ways by 'the media'

This is a FB post from my now 19 year old stepson.

I got that lead sittn in the heater ready to pack you in yo meter. Hataz pack words but you know im not slow to pack hits. Its berg all day till sunshines and fadez away like the faded sence of a memory. This life that im living seems to be a blessing so dont test me because you might rest in piss for eternity. I might have that alias name and i have super rich street fame straight the muthafuckn game. Hahaha what the fuck ever yeah yeah whatever shut the fuck up. Anyways, i got bottles for sale, greens im slangin, a dirtbike for sale, brand new clothes, coogi pants, n 501's. Whats up? Halla at ya boy i got what you need fresh out of the store snatched the fuck up.

Now he`s got developmental issues from an umbilical strangle at birth - his bio-dad is a Unioned up plumber who drinks too much and will likely be dead in the next 5 years, his mom is the crackwhore (currently avoiding prison by a narrow margin) and then there was me, who impacted his life for just a few years. Did what I could to straighten him and his kid sister out, but you can only do so much with that you have, and in between stints of juvie and state placement he`s become... this.

I had only a little influence on his life, but to see him bragging about dope dealing, riding a `repaired` bike with no license, insurance or helmet, robbing people or snatch and grabbing stuff from stores, it hurts me in places Im not sure I can look at any more. He's acting like a ghetto thug (wigger!), so who the hell is feeding him the idea that its ok to do this shit, poor parenting certainly didnt help but all the shit he`s chasing the gangsta / SWAG or what have you, that is all media/society driven.

The cynic in me, is thinking that `the powers that be` want idiot young men like him to keep acting the same way as it has a nice neat route leading straight to jail. The sad thing is, Men are at the top of so many companies... but also at the top of prison populations and of homelessness and guess what, testosterone has very little underlying effect on aggressiveness.

This is one of the ways these things begin. It is okay to start with media portrayals or to just rant about perceived injustices. As long as it is a start to something more it is worthwhile. The feminists movements were about self discovery among other things. What it means to be a man in today's world is self discovery too. Men in general are not oppressed as a class, but individual men were and still are oppressed by their gender roles just as much as women. Life is probably a bit less stressful now that there are two "bread winners" in a household, two heads of households for many households. When the recession hit I heard a lot of people saying "thank goodness my spouse still has his/her job".

Is that the way it is with all households? No. Some people don't want to have to be the primary earner in their family. Some men are still pressured into filling the primary earner role at home, but still have to deal with more progressive expectations at work. It can be a bit frustrating I am sure.

Im not about to argue that Tom, my point was more that society is being warped in potentially harmful ways by 'the media'

This is a post from my now 19 year old stepson.

I got that lead sittn in the heater ready to pack you in yo meter. Hataz pack words but you know im not slow to pack hits. Its berg all day till sunshines and fadez away like the faded sence of a memory. This life that im living seems to be a blessing so dont test me because you might rest in piss for eternity. I might have that alias name and i have super rich street fame straight the muthafuckn game. Hahaha what the fuck ever yeah yeah whatever shut the fuck up. Anyways, i got bottles for sale, greens im slangin, a dirtbike for sale, brand new clothes, coogi pants, n 501's. Whats up? Halla at ya boy i got what you need fresh out of the store snatched the fuck up.

Now he`s got developmental issues from an umbilical strangle at birth - his bio-dad is a Unioned up plumber who drinks too much and will likely be dead in the next 5 years, his mom is the crackwhore (currently avoiding prison by a narrow margin) and then there was me, who impacted his life for just a few years. Did what I could to straighten him and his kid sister out, but you can only do so much with that you have, and in between stints of juvie and state placement he`s become... this.

I had only a little influence on his life, but to see him bragging about dope dealing, riding a `repaired` bike with no license, insurance or helmet, robbing people or snatch and grabbing stuff from stores, it hurts me in places Im not sure I can look at any more.

Wow, I had no idea. Please accept my apology, I am so sorry.

If it helps, from your first post, I am a stay home dad, and while when I first started down this path it was really hard (support groups galore for stay home moms, but you're not welcome), but I am raising my kids myself, and not allowing the media to do so for me.

Got the IPad yesterday. Went looking at EBooks, at least to buy off the App Store some of the e-versions were more expensive than what they were selling for on Amazon in physical form. I don't get it.

This is probably the one thing that is keeping ebooks from really taking off. The only advantage ebooks have over physical books is that you can have a lot of them and it doesn't take up any physical space. However, it's hard to stop buying physical books when they're one-half to one-third the cost of an ebook.

They use to have a men's and women's bathroom, plus two unisex bathroom around the corner. All of them are single user. I thought they should all be unisex however, they just segregated the two unisex bathrooms so now instead of a possible 3 bathrooms for either gender to use, they have 2. There better be a urinal in the men's bathroom because if they are the same it just makes no sense.

They use to have a men's and women's bathroom, plus two unisex bathroom around the corner. All of them are single user. I thought they should all be unisex however, they just segregated the two unisex bathrooms so now instead of a possible 3 bathrooms for either gender to use, they have 2. There better be a urinal in the men's bathroom because if they are the same it just makes no sense.

There's a local restaurant with a unisex bathroom but with male or female indicators on the stalls. The weird thing it, the male stalls are urinal only. I'm not sure if guys don't poop or if we're supposed to do it in the urinals.